POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS - Trinity College Dublin

ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
TRINITY M.B.A.
The Master in Business Administration (M.B.A.) was
launched in 1964. The Trinity M.B.A. is a one-year full-time
or two years part-time programme aimed at young and
mid-career managers with a strong strategic orientation.
It is accredited by the Association of M.B.A.s (AMBA). The
Trinity M.B.A. programme aims:
• to provide mastery of the discipline and skills associated
with the role of general management
In general, research degree students enroll initially on the
M.Litt. register. To complete a Ph.D., students must apply
for “Transfer to the Ph.D. Register”. It is expected that this
transfer will be achieved in the second year of a student’s
registration. As part of their training, students submit and
present formal progress reports, attend formal research
seminars, and complete readings and other studies as
directed. Full-time students are expected to serve as teaching
and research assistants for a number of hours each week.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Research in the School is driven predominantly by
individual staff members’ research agendas in the areas
of accounting, finance, human resource management,
international business, marketing, managing new product
development, operations management, organisational
behaviour, organisation studies, and strategic management.
Such research may require little or no funding, or may be
funded by companies, foundations, government bodies or
the EU. A number of thematic research programmes exists
involving groups of researchers including:
• The Centre for Nonprofit Management
• Conduits
• Strategic change and information technology
• to ensure each participant is challenged individually to
attain the highest standards of personal excellence
• to learn to question assumptions and confront the
implementation of solutions
• to emphasise the strategic and competitive imperatives
of managing in an international environment
• to learn through action taking and through teamwork
The Trinity M.B.A. programme is organised as a set of
five Modules, each with a different theme. These themes
support the Company Project, the capstone of the
Programme: the theme for Module 2 supports the Industry
Analysis Stage of the Project; that for Module 3 supports
the Company Analysis and Issue Identification Stage; that
for Module 4 supports the Issue Analysis Stages. This
support is derived from the integration of the courses
taught during the Modules, both with each other and
with the needs of the Project Stages.
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